Mysterious Booming Sound From A New Jersey Town Turns Out To Be Some Dude Blasting Clouds Out Of The Sky With a Cannon To Prevent Bad Weather
The mysterious booming sound that’s been rocking a New Jersey town is apparently the result of a homemade “hail cannon” designed by a vineyard owner to protect his crop from bad weather, he and police told The Post.
Rob Butkowski of Hammonton said he’s been firing off the sonically loud cone-shaped contraption — which blasts shock waves up to the sky — to break up cloud formations and scare away birds that nibble his grapes.
For weeks, he’s been firing off the thunderous shock waves — which travel 30,000 feet in a 1.5-mile radius — above his five-acre plot, he said.
A New Jersey town called Hammonton has been hearing a mysterious booming sound coming from an unknown location over the last few weeks. Aliens? The Military? People had no fucking clue what was going on and sent a ton of complaints to the police. After investigating it turns out it was this dude blasting a cannon at clouds breaking them apart and scaring away birds so he could protect his grapes. Let me repeat that, this dude was blasting clouds 30,000 feet in the air with a goddamn CANNON! That my friends, is awesome! That's how you do quarantine the right way. Bored? Fuck reading books or starting a hobby, go build a 16 foot cannon to control the weather. Only one word can accurately describe this man: genius.
Did you have any idea we could just destroy clouds and change the weather? I certainly did not. Anytime you see a giant rain cloud approaching you could just blast that thing into Bolivian? No more rain? Kind of a more tamed version of the President trying to nuke hurricanes. The best part of this? It appears legal somehow.
“It doesn’t fire projectiles, and it’s not a firearm or an explosive,” Friel said, adding there are no plans to stop him. “It uses gas — and that’s it.” The only possible legal issue would be a noise violation after 10 p.m., which is moot because Butkowski stops using the machine around 8 p.m.
My question is why don't sports teams use this technology? If a random joe schmo can create this gas cannon from scratch using street signs and other scraps then someone with real expertise could design a more efficient one and make sure we never have rain outs ever again. Anytime a threatening cloud comes by you wheel out the cannon and blast that motherfucker into another town (literally). We're talking entertainment for the fans as well as eliminating lengthy delays or cancellations of games. This could change the world as far as I'm concerned.
So now that the cat is out of the bag does this man plan to stop his cannon blasts? Not a chance in hell.
Butkowski, for his part, has no plans to stop firing the cannon, he said. “I’m gonna do whatever I want as long as it’s legal,” he said.
I'm here for this inner-town rivalry. Cannon man vs. the people of Hammonton. We need to send Caleb there for a Sundae Conversation and get the inside scoop.